Advice for Red Hat 8.0 users

[aaron901]

This thread is created for the linux experts to give some advices or tutorials to new linux users, for instance, how to access other partitions like fat32, ntfs in linux...... (yes i don't know :( )

i believe there are a lot people know nothing about linux and willing to give it a go. advices are greatly appreciated.

First off, please teach me how to access my files in other partitions.. :p

[pagal]

did you get your soundcard to work?

[neostyle]

how about reading the tutorials - they are all there !

[pagal]

would you mind pointing us to some of these tutorials?

thanks.

[Prasanth]

use the mount command to mount your windows drives

mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /mnt/blah where /dev/hda8 is your fat drive and /mnt/blah is a folder.Type man mount for the mount manual page.

edit /etc/fstab to auto mount at statup

http://www.linuxnewbie.org is a good site for linux newbies

[pagal]

thanks prasanth.

could you give me some idea to get my soundcard working with RedHat 8.0?

[aaron901]

thanks prasanth.

one question, how do i install an app? i've got a program on a cd that enables me to get my cable to work. the installation guide was written vaguely so i'm not sure what to do.

Installing

1. Check the Makefile and set the correct locations for the executable, the config file, and the init script. There is no man page...what do you expect for nothing? :)

2. Type make install

3. Edit the /etc/bpalogin.conf file and set any relevant details.

4. Start BPALogin using either the init script, or using /usr/sbin/bpalogin -c /etc/bpalogin.conf

what is Makefile? what are the correct locations? i tried to copy the file to /bin but a msg pop up saying i'm not allowed to copy the file to this location. then i tried another file to /etc, same msg popup, seems like i can't drag and drop the file to the location i want.

and where do i type make install?

[aaron901]

my soundcard works. what soundcard u using pagal?

[neostyle]

use sndconfig !

[pagal]

I have tried using sndconfig but it doesn't work.! (bash - command not found)

and its a soundblaster AWE64

[neostyle]

u have to install it first then u can use it with bash !

[drolkram]

I had no sound after installing Red Hat 8 either. I have two sound cards, an on-board thing and a SB Live, and the Red Hat installer had assigned the on-board thing to sound-slot-0 and the SB Live to sound-slot-1. I edited /etc/modules.conf and swapped the designations and it appears to have worked (although I haven't got sound in TuxRacer yet, but I've not had time to investigate that). Oh, I also had to enable sounds in Gnome, and up the volume. I wish Red Hat would go copy Mandrake's sound setup, under Mandrake 9 sound just worked out-of-the-box.

[pagal]

Originally posted by neostyle

u have to install it first then u can use it with bash !

sorry to be a real dumb-ass, but I don't know how to install it :(

could you give me some instructions?

also, I forgot to install pico, if possible, please write a line or two about that as well. :s

Thanks!

[MaYed]

Originally posted by pagal

I have tried using sndconfig but it doesn't work.! (bash - command not found)

and its a soundblaster AWE64

ok .. open termnal

tape

su

enter root pass

setup

after .. choose soundcard configurtor

good luck

[pagal]

it only has authentication, firewall, keyboard, mouse, network, printer, system and timezone configurations....nothing about the soundcard...

how'd I install sndconfig ?

[MaYed]

Originally posted by pagal

it only has authentication, firewall, keyboard, mouse, network, printer, system and timezone configurations....nothing about the soundcard...

how'd I install sndconfig ?

:)

ok i think u not install sndcfg ..

btw now go to k menu and choose Packege to add sndcfg

now Choose details for Sound and Video and u see

Sndconfig .. choose it then update

after reboot or try again tape in termnal setup .. im sure u see it

sorry about my engilsh :x :x

good luck

[BroChaos Veteran]

sorry if this is off topic, not trying to be an ass or anything, but i was wondering out of curiousity if you guys have tried mandrake 9 yet. it will auto mount your partitions (even ntfs), and most likely your sound will work out of the box.

[pagal]

lol, the problem is that I didn't make the partition big enough to install the packages completely, that's why I am stuck. I'd install Mandrake but I've had some bad experiences with it.

once again, thanks for all the help MaYed, that'll be the first thing I'll do once I get home. :)

[Toby]

There always an error occur after I installed RedHat inside the VMware, can someone tell me what are the steps needed?

[aaron901]

Originally posted by BroChaos

sorry if this is off topic, not trying to be an ass or anything, but i was wondering out of curiousity if you guys have tried mandrake 9 yet. it will auto mount your partitions (even ntfs), and most likely your sound will work out of the box.

i tried mandrake 9.. i personally think its ugly.. redhat 8 is much more 'prettier'. although mandrake 9 might be better than redhat 8, but i feel better using a prettier os.

[sparkleytone]

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

drop to command line.

type:

BitchX us.chatjunkies.org

/join #linuxhelp

OR

type in browser:

www.google.com

HOWTO *blahblah* linux

[Tesseract]

Originally posted by BroChaos

sorry if this is off topic, not trying to be an ass or anything, but i was wondering out of curiousity if you guys have tried mandrake 9 yet. it will auto mount your partitions (even ntfs), and most likely your sound will work out of the box.

Well I have just installed Mandrake Linux 9. It automounts my windows/ntfs partition, but the sound does not work. The soundcore is not present or is not turned on, and I have the drivers for it, but I just can't get them installed.

Same with my modem.

[pagal]

f***!!!

After struggling for a full night and getting MaYed's advice + even more struggling I got the soundcard to work....but guess what...after the reboot the internet isn't working now!!!

now its not detecting the ethernet card for some damn reason.

[pagal]

alright, can anyone help me install the nic card?

it was working fine but then all of a sudden it stopped working. Its a DE-528 and I have also downloaded the linux drivers from their site.

[MaYed]

pagal .. u can search ur problem or ask about it in

http://linuxquestions.org/

hope to fix it ..

good luck ;)